Improvement in grain-forks



M. c. REMINGTON.

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"No. 56,328. I Patented My 10, 1866..

N-PEIERS, PHOTOMTHOGRAPMER WASH NGTON u c UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

MARTIN O. REMINGTON, OF AUBURN, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF AND A. O. REMINGTON, OF WEEDSPORT, NEW YORK.

IMPROVEMENT IN GRAIN-FORKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 56,328, dated July 10, 1866.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, MARTIN G. REMINGTON, of Auburn, Oayuga cou nty, State ofNew York, have invented a new and Improved Barley Fork; and I do hereby declare that the followin g is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification, in which- Figure 1 is a face view of my improved fork; Fig. 2, a side view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate like parts.

This invention relates to a new and improved manner of attaching the bow to the fork, as hereinafter fully shown and described, whereby the bow may be readily applied to and detached from the fork, the advantage of which will be hereinafter set forth.

A represents the stale or handle of the fork, constructed of wood, as usual, and B is a castiron head secured on the end of the handle by means of a socket, a, cast at the center of the head to receive the handle, and through which socket a screw, 1), passes into the handle. The head is also cast with sockets c, in which the wooden teeth 0 are secured, the sockets havin g such a position that they will diverge slightly from each other from their inner ends outward. This cast-iron head has been previously used, and therefore does not form a part of this invention when viewed separately or apart from the bow and brace hereinafter described.

0 represents the bow, the-ends of which are bent to form hooks d to fit into eyes 8 e on the head B, one at each end of the latter. The bow is also bent to form eyes ff to receive hooks g g at the ends of the brace-rod D. This bow G is constructed of a metal rod of suitable thickness, and the brace-rod D may be formed of a single rod of suitable thickness, bent or doubled to form two parts or arms, h h, the ends of which are bent to form the hooks g g to enter the eyes ff of the bow.

The brace-rod D passes through an eye, i: in the handle A, the bend of the rod fitting or working in the eye, and the parts or arms h h of the brace-rod are sufficiently elastic to admit of the hooks g g, by pressing the parts or arms h it toward each other, passing out from the eyes f f.

The brace-rod D secures the bow O at a right-angular position with the handle A, as shown in Fig. 2. By this arrangement the bow may be very readily applied to and detached from the fork, for, by removing the hooks g g from the eyes of the bow, the hooks d of the latter may be readily slipped out from the eyes 6 e of the head B, and the brace-rod drawn out from the eye i of the handle, and the bow may be applied to the fork with equal facility.

In certain cases the fork may be used with greater advantage without the bowas, for instance, in operating with loose straw, grain, seed-clover. 8E0.2U1d forks are frequently ordered without bows where designed specially for such use. My invention therefore possesses a great advantage in having a bow which may be applied and detached at pleasure and with facility.

Another advantage my invention possesses is the compactness with which they may be done and packed for shipment or transportation, all that is required in the latter case being the detaching of the brace-rod from the bow and turning both down in contact with or flat against the fork.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

The construction and combination of the bow O and brace-rod D, applied to the fork, substantially as and for the purpose specified.

MARTIN O. REMINGTON.

Witnesses HENRY R. FILLEY, JOHN GRIGGS. 

